Prisoners Per 100,000: US Has Highest Incarceration Rate In The World [Chart] By Lisa Mahapatra on August 14 2013 8:03 AM
The United States officially has the highest incarceration rate in the world, according to data from the International Center for Prison Studies: For every 100,000 people who lived in the U.S. in 2011, 716 were in jail.
Despite falling crime rates, the U.S. prison population has grown from 307,276 in 1978 to a high of 1.6 million prisoners in state and federal prisons in 2009, according to a report from the Pew Research Center. Since then, in the last three years, the prison population has declined, but only slightly.
In comparison, Russia, with the world’s eighth highest incarceration rate, imprisons 479 people per every 100,000 residents. And China, 127th on the list, incarcerates only 121 people per 100,000.
Most European countries, like France, Germany and the U.K., have between 50 and 150 prisoners per 100,000 residents.
The Drug War And Mass Incarceration By The Numbers The Huffington Post | By Matt Sledge Posted: 04/08/2013 7:34 am EDT | Updated: 04/08/2013 1:24 pm EDT
NEW YORK -- Despite an increased emphasis on treatment and prevention programs in recent years, the Obama administration in its 2013 budget still requested $25.6 billion in federal spending on the drug war. Of that, $15 billion would go to law enforcement, interdiction and international efforts.
The pro-reform Drug Policy Alliance estimates that when you combine state and local spending on everything from drug-related arrests to prison, the total cost adds up to at least $51 billion per year. Over four decades, the group says, American taxpayers have dished out $1 trillion on the drug war.
What all that money has helped produce -- aside from unchanged drug addiction rates -- is the world's highest incarceration rate. According to the Sentencing Project, 2.2 million Americans are in prison or jail.
More than half of federal prisoners are incarcerated for drug crimes in 2010, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and that number has only just dipped below 50 percent in 2011. Despite more relaxed attitudes among the public at large toward non-violent offenses like marijuana use, the number of people in federal prison for drug offenses spiked from 74,276 in 2000 to 97,472 in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The punishment falls disproportionately on people of color. Blacks make up 50 percent of the state and local prisoners incarcerated for drug crimes. Black kids are 10 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes than white ones -- even though white kids are more likely to abuse drugs.
A chart produced by the American Civil Liberties Union shows just how staggeringly large the US prison population has grown.
US ranks 5th in the world in executing its citizens and 1st in incarcerating. I guess we could do a better job at killing our citizens through the legal system.
China and Russia's executions keep the prison population down.
Death penalty around the world Country Total executed, 2007-12 Total sentenced to death, 2007-12 CHINA THOUSANDS THOUSANDS IRAN 1,663 156 SAUDI ARABIA 423 54 IRAQ 256 1,420 UNITED STATES 220 504 PAKISTAN 171 1,497 YEMEN 152 109 KOREA (NORTH) 105 0
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The country with the most guns and the country with the most Gun Related Murders. (No Surprise There)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Cracker Graham thought long and hard on his response... after long deliberation, he called on his college background and came up with his essay on Guns in America.
Well done Graham!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
first of all Israel can't be that low.....they just kill the 'illegal neighbors' and they have a mandatory army service law.... everyone gets their 'rocks off' there after being trained to use guns.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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